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    Affective Disorder
    Affective Disorder
    Affective Disorder
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    Affective Disorder

    By Raymund Eich

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    A Writers of the Future semi-finalist

    A hard-boiled private eye meets a high-tech mystery, in this short story by the author of Azureseas: Cantrell's War

    A multi-millionaire heiress commits suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sues the company for millions more.

    In comes a private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company to dig up dirt on the "grieving" husband. Albert expected the usual: greed, a mistress, emotional manipulation, a marriage on the rocks.

    Instead he found something far more sinister.

    Questions of brain chemicals and free will.

    Questions of what it means to be human.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCV-2 Books
    Release dateMar 20, 2020
    ISBN9781393056096
    Affective Disorder
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    Raymund Eich

    Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.

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